People living with dementia are at risk of going missing. The goal of this project was to develop case scenarios for health service providers, service recipients, and care partners to facilitate dialogues about managing risks related to going missing. This paper presents 10 case scenarios, based in real events, created to describe factors related to missing incidents of people living with dementia. Scenarios were developed following qualitative analysis of dementia-related missing incident reports from 515 MedicAlert Foundation Canada® hotline call summary notes, 1760 missing incident reports from three Canadian police departments and one search and rescue unit, and the experiences of two families. The case scenarios were reviewed by five participants for comprehensibility and validity. The case scenarios are an educational tool for health service providers, first responders, care partners, and persons living with dementia to use when discussing ways to manage risks of going missing.
